A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 18 January 2016 at 09:50 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4, a Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 09:50 on Monday 18 January 2016. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2016
- Monday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen C4 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4515, longitude -4.41129, in the KA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UC41101
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2019.
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 14 October 2019
22 m awayRef 2019970895104
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 4 November 2020
44 m awayRef 2020990996330
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 11 December 1987
55 m awayRef 198797RB01612
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 4 May 1988
55 m awayRef 198897RB00705
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 22 August 2012
62 m awayRef 201297UC41308
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 16 August 2015
83 m awayRef 201597UC40908
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201697UC41101 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2016.